Park Hyatt Paris-Vendme REVIEW - MASTER THREAD (Aug 2011 onward)
May 13, 2024, 12:06 pm
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Blaise Mautin is still Blaise Mautin! Glad that it's not the PH brand standard Le Labo, which is not bad but not Blaise Mautin.
May 14, 2024, 7:38 am
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It's watered down cheap sh*t. But as long as it's branded, it's good? That's exactly what they are doing here: They are buying some cheap stuff and get it endorsed by Blaise Mautin by putting their logo on the bottles. I find this appalling but you always find someone who will swear it's the best thing they have ever seen.
May 14, 2024, 8:40 am
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completely different scent - the last but one iteration seemed more citrusey, this is literally like smelling Johnson's baby shampoo. I also realized that I don't really like to carry more than I can use - the conditioner and shampoo are not great for my hair, so I usually only pick up the bar soap and maybe the body wash. I stopped bringing home the body wash as I realized it wasn't my jam. I still have a few hard milled bars of the original scent and love them so much. The closest scent I've found (not an exhaustive study) to the original is the Bowmakers found in the thompson hotels. I always bring home the little moisturizers and bar soaps as I love the musky scent.
May 14, 2024, 9:22 am
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May 15, 2024, 4:14 am
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BM don't appear to sell it themselves, so I suspect the guess above is correct that it's just cheap white label products with perhaps a homeopathic drop of perfume in it. Or perhaps not even that.
Brand culture is responsible for so much expensive cheap rubbish nowadays.
Brand culture is responsible for so much expensive cheap rubbish nowadays.
May 15, 2024, 5:36 pm
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It's watered down cheap sh*t. But as long as it's branded, it's good? That's exactly what they are doing here: They are buying some cheap stuff and get it endorsed by Blaise Mautin by putting their logo on the bottles. I find this appalling but you always find someone who will swear it's the best thing they have ever seen.
I remember being there on my birthday years ago and they gave me a bottle as a gift. One spritz did (does, I still have some) the trick!
May 17, 2024, 2:59 am
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I guess we can kiss goodbye to the Blaise Mautin stuff of yore, the one that smelled of almonds? That schmaltz was nice. Very nice.
May 17, 2024, 11:53 pm
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May 18, 2024, 4:36 am
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